Paperworkers' Union

The Paperworkers' Union () is a trade union representing workers in the paper industry, in Finland.

History The union was established in 1906, on the initiative of the Tampere Paper Industry Workers' Union. Initially a successful organisation, it split in 1930 between supporters of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and a communist-led group. The communist group was soon banned, so the SDP's Finnish Paper Industry Workers' Union viewed itself as the successor of the earlier union.

The union affiliated to the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions, and then from 1969, to its successor, the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions. By 1998, it had 49,618 members, but by 2019, this had fallen to 34,021, of whom only 14,000 were actively employed in the industry.

Despite its decline in membership, the union decided against joining the Industrial Union TEAM, founded in 2010, or its successor, the Industrial Union.

Presidents 1906: Aksel Pynnönen 1907: Ville Salonen 1908: Kalle Salminen 1910: K. A. Koskinen 1917: Eino Rissanen 1919: Kalle Koivunen 1922: Aleksi Ulanen 1929: Santtu Vuorio 1935: Hjalmar Lappalainen 1946: Pentti Lundström 1949: Vihtori Rantanen 1955: Veikko Ahtola 1978: Antero Mäki 1993: Jarmo Lähteenmäki 2003: Jouko Ahonen 2011: Petri Vanhala

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